Hey all,

So my shower was leaking when the water was turned off, I replaced the cartridges but now there's two problems:

1. It's a three handle shower, hot, diverter and cold. The cold handle is supposed to point out to the right and rotate down to turn on the water, but with the new cartridge in it's rotating up to turn on instead of down. It's cosmetic, but I'd rather not leave a janky fix. Any suggestions? Am I just being a noob here?

2. This is the problem from the title. The diverter stem in the middle has seen better days, but I couldn't find it at any of my 3 hardware stores or even online. The shower head is an American Standard, and the American Standard cartridges worked to fix the leak. This is the stem I'm looking to replace. Could I use a different one, or is there a compatible repair kit for the O rings at least? I took it out to bring to the store, now it's dripping from the diverter handle when the shower runs

Thanks!

Edit: lol no clue why imgur tagged my link as NSFW

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Do you have any recommendations on brands? Thank you

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Hello all,

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We prefer the 3d Structure ones, but they say its not good for cleaning.

Do you have some experience with this tiles?

Thanks a lot

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